WHO official: Speed ​​is the key, European vaccination is "too slow"

　　China News Service, May 30. According to Agence France-Presse, the director of the World Health Organization's European Regional Office, Kruger, said that the pandemic is expected to end after at least 70% of the population is vaccinated against the new crown.

He also criticized European vaccination operations as "too slow."

Data map: The water bus in Venice, Italy has become a new crown vaccination station, vaccinating the new crown vaccination for seniors over 80 years old.

　　Among the 53 countries and regions (several of which are in Central Asia) covered by the WHO European Region, 26% of the population received the first dose of the vaccine.

Statistics from Agence France-Presse show that 36.6% of the EU population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 16.9% of the population has completed two doses.

　　Kruger said his main concern is that the mutated coronavirus is more contagious.

He said: "For example, we know that the first B1617 found in India is more infectious than the first B117 found in the UK, and the British mutant virus is already more infectious than the previous strains."

　　Kruger, who has served as the director of the European Regional Office since February 2020, emphasized that although vaccines have proven effective against mutations, people must remain vigilant.

If "people relax their vigilance and become complacent", especially in the summer months, it is worrying.

　　He also emphasized that speed is the "key" during the epidemic.

Kruger said, "We need to speed up, we need to increase the number of vaccines (vaccinations)." He also called for European countries to show more solidarity.

　　On the 28th, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the expansion of the use of Pfizer's vaccine to allow 12 to 15-year-old teenagers to be vaccinated.

Pfizer vaccine is the first vaccine approved for use in adolescents in Europe.

An announcement issued by the Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency stated that teenagers have received the vaccine very well and there are no side effects that must be of extreme concern.